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In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason | |
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In Country Lesson Plan
33,795 words, approx. 113 pages
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Bobbie Ann Mason | | Birth Date: |
1 May 1940 |
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 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
9143 words, approx. 30.5 pages
 Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about the antithesis. Her characters are ordinary, working-cla... summary from source:
 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
8314 words, approx. 27.7 pages
Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about the antithesis. Her characters are ordinary, working-cla... summary from source:
 Biography of Bobbie Ann Mason
4850 words, approx. 16.2 pages
"'Born to Run' ... that's my whole history, and my whole psychology, and all my subject matter. I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out."1 Bobbie Ann Mason...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 In Country Information
677 words, approx. 2 pages
 In Country is a 1989 American drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd, a British actress who underwent training to speak with a Kentucky accent in the film. The screenplay by Frank Pierson and Cynthia...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Timothy D. O'Brien
8,257 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, O'Brien discusses symbolism and imagery in the novel In Country, noting how these elements lend depth and breadth to Mason's characters as well as the novel itself.
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Critical Essay by Yonka Krasteva
5,832 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Krasteva maintains that while In Country takes place in an American South changed by urban life and pop culture, Mason does not strip her fictional world of the tenets of Southern tradition and community.
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Critical Essay by Matthew C. Stewart
5,380 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Stewart discusses what he feels to be the merits and flaws in the depictions of Vietnam veterans in the novel In Country.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 95%In Country
411 words, approx. 1 pages
In Country is a book about a girl who longs to know who her father was. Her father died in the Vietnam War. In Mason's In Country, Sam finds out many things about her father and her uncle that she never knew.
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